This has my head spinning tonight! Don't know whether I want to go make another selvage quilt, or make wallpaper out of some selvages (it would probably last a lot longer than the wallpaper made out of newsprint).

3 comments:

The article on the wallpaper is interesting. I've seen wastebaskets and boxes made out of rolled newsprint and I made boxes covered with rolled pages from magazines as a child. It's just a technique. It's what you do with the technique that is the important part.

Your constructions using the selvages to create type in specific fonts is a multi-layered use of the technique. The wallpaper is wallpaper. Nice wallpaper, fun wallpaper, but wallpaper.

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